Ex­ISRO chief sum­moned in An­tri­-Devas case

NEW DELHI: A special court on Satur­day sum­moned for­mer ISRO chair­man G Mad ha van N air and others as ac­cused in the An­trixDevas deal case.

Special judge Vi ren­der Ku­mar Goyal di­rected Nair, A Bhaskar Narayana Rao, the then di­rec­tor in I SRO, K RS rid ha rM ur thy, the then ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of An tr ix, for­mer ad­di­tional sec­re­tary in the depart­ment of space (DoS) Ve en aS Rao and others to ap­pear be­fore the court here on De­cem­ber 23.

The court passed the di­rec­tions af­ter tak­ing cog­ni­sance of the CBI charge sheet filed in the matter.

The probe agency had on Au­gust 11 last year filed a charge sheet against the ac­cused, al­leg­ing they had caused a loss of ₹578 cr ore to the ex­che­quer by ab us­ing their of­fi­cial po­si­tion to favour a pri­vate com­pany.

The case re­lates to leas­ing of S-Band, a re­stricted wave­length of the INSAT satel­lites to de­liver video, mul­ti­me­dia and in­for­ma­tion ser­vices to mo­bile re­ceivers and phones to Dev as Mul­ti­me­dia.